life
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Death becomes us
There are times in life when death seems to crop up more than usual. It’s not necessarily the same time of year, but rather coincidentally when you lose people near to you and others in your sphere seem to, and it feels as though tragedy and loss encroach and cast a shadow over life at…
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Wonder women – in praise of the original multi-taskers
I am constantly surprised by the number of things that I don’t know. I don’t mean that in the sense of ‘the older I get, the less I know’, though that is also true, but rather practical knowledge, of which I know next to nothing. The people who highlight this lack in myself usually do…
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Tell me why I don’t like (Blue) Mondays
Today is Blue Monday – the day widely considered to be the saddest day of the year. This has made it so far into the public consciousness that school non-uniform days are scheduled, with children encouraged to pay a pound to dress in their own colourful clothes, to chase the blues away. The idea is…
Halfway to ninety 